A lapse in federal funding will eliminate a key U.S. Geologic Survey monitoring gauge on the Savannah River that is used to warn of pending floods.
It is certainly not one we want to lose after so many years of important record, said Eric W. Strom, director of the USGS Water Science Cen...

An Evans woman who was struck by a truck while walking alongside a rural road Sunday has been charged in the wreck.
Dorothy Michelle Walton, 39, of Summit Ridge Road, was charged with walking on the roadway. She was in fair condition today at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital, according to a ...

NORTH AUGUSTA -- A portion of Buena Vista Avenue was closed this morning as North Augusta Public Safety and the State Law Enforcement Division investigated a shooting death at Maude Edenfield Park.
Public Safety officials refused to tell the public what was involved, saying the incident is still un...

Authorities have identified a man wanted in connection to a Sunday night shooting at an Augusta motel.
Frederick Lee Singletary, 29, is wanted on two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and one county of possession of a firearm by a ...

AIKEN -- Several candidates have filed to run for open Aiken City Council seats, declaring their intent prior to todays filing deadline.
Up for grabs in the November general election will be two at-large seats and those of Districts 2 and 4.
Among the field of candidates are two incumbents &...

AIKEN -- Several people have been arrested this morning in a drug raid at a home in Aiken County.
According to a news release, Aiken County sheriff's narcotics investigators served a search warrant on a home at 208 Daley Drive in Burnettown following a several months of investigation....

Striped bass trapped in a collapsing layer of oxygenated water continued to die at Thurmond Lake over the weekend, according to biologists monitoring the phenomenon.
The total collected is about 211 fish, and that is cumulative, said Jamie Sykes, fisheries biologist for the Army Corps o...

Its Bijous first day of school at Lakeside High School. Hes even got his nameplate outside the classroom, decorated with paws.
Bijou is the guide dog for Cassandra Gentry, a 10th-12th grades science teacher with Retinitis Pigmentosa, an eye disease that progressively limits vision...